Wa'el Farhan
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWa'el Farhan is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of experience combining a deep academic foundation (MS in Computer Science, AI specialization from UCSD) with practical leadership in ML and software engineering. He currently builds document understanding and extraction pipelines at Google DocumentAI, after leading NLU research and productionization for Arabic at Mawdoo3. His background spans end-to-end product delivery from monolithic web apps to scalable deep learning microservices, and includes hands-on system design, data modeling, and team leadership across global R&D teams. Comfortable bridging research and production, he optimizes models for accuracy, latency, and resource constraints while onboarding large datasets. A subtle strength is his cross-disciplinary start — from 3D art and web development to ML — which gives him a pragmatic, product-focused view of applied AI.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
IGCSE, Pre-Engineering, 5 A-Levels, IGCSE, Pre-Engineering, 5 A-Levels at De La SalleUniversity of California San DiegoBachelor Degree, Computer Engineering, 3.72, Bachelor Degree, Computer Engineering, 3.72 at University of Jordan
English, Arabic, French
Github Skills (26)
icu9
editors8
swagger7
api-blueprint7
openapi7
database6
lexicon6
lua6
api6
opennmt6
testing6
nlp5
linter5
deep-learning5
nmt5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
wael34218/python_openapi_generator
Mar 2019 - Nov 2019
This library facilitates creating OpenAPI (Swagger) document for Python projects.
Contributions:7 releases, 41 commits, 4 PRs in 8 months
apipythonpython-projectsfacilitatesopenapi3
wael34218/SequentialPhenotypePredictor
Dec 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:106 commits, 101 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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